By age of 28 I’ve been to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Poland, Belarus, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Ireland, USA, Cuba, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Monaco, Spain, Croatia, Japan. Going to Mexico very soon, but that still leaves three more countries to visit so that the number would match my age, before April next year. One per month for 2010? Korea, India, Thailand. And for 29th birthday, Australia. 30, New Zealand.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)